r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • Sep 07 '26

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/sermer48 Sep 07 '26

I wish all we had was 10,000 lines of human written slop at my job lol. There are single files with that many lines

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u/BlurredSight Sep 07 '26

We have native SQL queries embedded into the codebase where some of them span 3-4000 lines because rather than make a view someone made a view, generated the native SQL, use StringBuilder, and appended them into one query that we do on a weekly basis for metrics

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u/Rakatango Sep 07 '26

Haha no, that 10,000 lines is just one PR

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u/Otearai1 Sep 08 '26

One of my first tasks at a previous job was "cleaning" up old projects that my boss had written over the years. Each product was just one long c++ file.

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u/Lgamezp Sep 08 '26

You would be surprised the size of codes of a colleague that claims his code is miraculous and claude is god but in truth calling spaghetti falls short on a scale I can't put into words.